Acting teaching staff

Find out more about our teaching staff, for our BA (Hons) and MA programmes, our Foundation Course in Acting and Short Courses.

John Beschizza Lead Acting Tutor
Lesley Ewen Improvisation/Devising
Christopher Heimann Improvisation
Melanie Jessop Acting Technique and Scene Study
Annie Tyson Acting Technique and Scene Study

Shona Morris Lead Movement Tutor
Mixalis Aristidou Movement
Elizabeth Ballinger Pure Movement
Angela Gasparetto Movement
Francine Watson Coleman Period Movement and Style
Sue Lefton Period and Social Dance and Style Consultant
Philip d'Orleans Stage Combat
Bret Yount Stage Combat

Jane Streeton Lead Singing Tutor
Jonathan Butcher Choral Singing
Frances Jellard Singing
Darell Moulton Singing
Mark Oldfield Singing
Philip Raymond Singing
Tom Wakeley Singing Coach

Joe Windley Lead Voice Tutor
Deborah Garvey Speech and Voice
Kay Welch Practical Voice and Speech
Emma Woodvine Practical Voice and Speech

Pamela Jikiemi Head of Film, TV and Radio
Lucinda Cary Film, Screen Acting (Devising)
Beru Tessema Screen Acting (Meisner)

Katya Benjamin Alexander Technique
Korina Biggs Alexander Technique
Bethan Pugh Alexander Technique
Lloyd Trott Academy Dramaturg
David Timson Actor's History and Microphone Technique

Nona Shepphard Associate Director and Chair of Audition Panel

MA Theatre Lab Course Leader Ian Morgan

Robert Fried Acting & text
Nigel Gearing Contextual studies
Tom Hunsinger Creative writing
Peta Lily Clown and Commedia dell'Arte
Linda Miller Acting

MA Text and Performance Course Leader Tom Hunsinger

Jane Bertish Acting & text
Pooja Ghai Directing
Dan Sherer Text, Directing

Director of Short Courses and NYU Tisch London Program Course Director
Geoff Bullen

Foundation Course Director Joan Oliver

Katya Benjamin Movement teacher
Lucinda Cary Film, TV & Radio
Michelle Chadwick Acting & text
Andrew Cuthbert Voice
Ian Henderson Acting & text
Rosamunde Hutt Acting & text
Gary Lagden Acting & text
Gerrard Martin Dance
Dewi Matthews Alexander technique
Vivian Munn Acting & text

Our Short Courses are taught by RADA Acting faculty and Academy Associate Teachers.